When a system jams, it undergoes a transition from a flowing to a rigid state. Despite this
important change in the dynamics, the internal structure of the system remains disordered in …

Hard spheres are ubiquitous in condensed matter: they have been used as models for
liquids, crystals, colloidal systems, granular systems, and powders. Packings of hard …

Glasses are amorphous solids whose constituent particles are caged by their neighbours
and thus cannot flow. This sluggishness is often ascribed to the free energy landscape …

We carry out numerical simulations to study transport behavior about the jamming transition
of a<? format?> model granular material in two dimensions at zero temperature. Shear …

Connectedness and applied stress strongly affect elasticity in solids. In various amorphous
materials, mechanical stability can be lost either by reducing connectedness or by …

Dynamic particle-scale numerical simulations are used to show that the shear thickening
observed in dense colloidal, or Brownian, suspensions is of a similar nature to that observed …

This topical review discusses the quasiuniversality of simple liquids' structure and dynamics
and two possible justifications of it. The traditional one is based on the van der Waals picture …

We revisit the concept of marginal stability in glasses and determine its range of applicability
in the context of an avalanche-type response to slow external driving. We argue that there is …

The statement of the title is shown by numerical simulation of homogeneously sheared
assemblies of frictionless, nearly rigid beads in the quasistatic limit. Results coincide for …

Random constraint satisfaction problems (CSP) have been studied extensively using
statistical physics techniques. They provide a benchmark to study average case scenarios …